PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources
Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530
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made for complete additional staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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staveline added
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
chant (Gothic)
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coronae
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custodes
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end symbol
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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Language
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fully texted with one or two texts
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Borders Frequency
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full borders
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Colour of text: black
Disposition of voice part: 3-part opening
Non verbal performance instructions: signes-de-renvoi
Number of staves: 9
Penned initials type: decorated
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Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Rés. Vmc. 57, c. 1470, All folios
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